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MCC &
Palestinians
It seems that the
following statement posted at the website of MCC is dictated by Tal Aviv.
Israel had 12 years to
negotiate a peace deal with Arafat and Abbas of
the Palestinian Authority ----- between the Oslo Accord that was signed in
September 1993 and election of Hamas in January
2006----- but the fact is that Zionists always believed that the time was
on their side; “Old will die and the young will forget” (Ben Gurian 1948). However, as Jews are committed not to
forget Holocaust, the Palestinians are also determined to let the memory of
“Al-Nakhba” fade away.
I have only one
suggestion for all those MCC variety “intellectuals”, who have been
advising Palestinians from the comfort of their drawing rooms in Canada,
to resort to Mahatma Gandhi type non-violent struggle that they all should
be shipped to the occupied territories for a month along with their
families. Indeed, after that experience they will come to their senses
(provided they are still alive) or and will stop lecturing the
Palestinians, whose tenacity deserves to be saluted.
Kis
terha koi dhoop meiN pighle jale hei
yeh
baat woh kiya jane jo
sa’ae meiN pale hei
Anis Zuberi
December 28, 2008
Israeli attack on Gaza
MCC calls for end to
bombing
Condemns Hamas for inciting hostilities
The MCC statement also
condemned Hamas for treating the Palestinian
people as human-bait in a ploy to provoke Israel
into launching an all-out attack on Gaza.
In censuring Hamas, the MCC said, the Islamist
group had deliberately put the civilian population of Gaza
in danger as it played the role of Iran's
agent provocateur in the region
The MCC believes Hamas deliberately rocketed Israel
in an attempt to provoke an Israeli response. The fact that Hamas did not fire a single rocket at Egypt,
despite that country's blockade of Gaza,
clearly demonstrates the attacks on Israel
were not to protest the blockade, but to trigger a military response.
Instead of working
towards a two-state solution and the creation of a Palestinian
State, Hamas
has done everything in its power to undermine the authority of President Mahmoud Abbas and sabotage
the peace process. No other national liberation movement in modern history
has offered martyrdom as a substitute to freedom and statehood. Hamas has set back the clock for the Palestinians and
it is time for all Palestinians to recognize that Hamas
offers only death, destruction and a place in Paradise,
not a Palestinian State.
The MCC urges the
Palestinian people to take the road of non-violence and civil disobedience
to achieve Palestinian Statehood and an end to Israeli occupation. The path
to sovereignty and nationhood can be accomplished by walking in the steps
of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. King, not Syed Qutb and Osama Bin Laden.
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